We must not allow our government to bully us into welcoming people whose moral obligation is the destruction of Western countries. Let us never forget that people who scream “Death to Israel” and "Death to the West” mean every word
We are living in an era of dis-ease. Our belief systems are under attack. We witness the horror of terrorism spreading in countries who do not share our values, as well as the spread of terror in democracies around the world. We are up against tribal societies whose ethic is one of honor and shame and where blood revenge is in the veins, where violence begets violence that, over time, can lead to a sense of helplessness, hopelessness, and victimhood. At the same time, too many of us born into freedom have become apathetic to, even neglectful of, the very ethic that underpins that freedom. And we are in the process of being abducted by a policy of “diversity.”
Muslims coming to the West talk about our diversity. In Canada my Prime Minister tells us that diversity is our most important value. Yet the people to whom he is reaching out are the very people who will not tolerate diversity.
President Barack Obama said that more Muslims have been killed by terrorism than any other group. Well, he is partially right. More Muslims have been murdered than Christians, Yezidis, Jews, agnostics, atheists. But not from terrorism. Muslims kill Muslims because they will not accept diversity amongst themselves. They will not sit together, work together, or care for the other, even when the other is one of them. Diversity in Islam? Never.
That lack of tolerance for each other plays out all over the west. Muslims in their own countries kill the other with glee: Decapitating, burning, drowning, throwing off buildings, stoning to death, dragging human beings behind trucks, using people as human shields to protect themselves, using children and the disabled as suicide bombers; they use the same procedures throughout the West and then add a few more--like running people over with trucks-people just having fun, drinking coffee, playing with their children, buying groceries; or blowing up buses, or taking a gun and shooting randomly, or use a screw driver to attack both old and young. Or fly planes into buildings.
These are the same people who come to America and Canada, who have already swarmed Europe demanding their “rights.” Their freedom of religion! Their right to bring their intolerant, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic Culture into our open Culture, a Culture whose very foundation, rooted in caring for the other, makes pluralism possible.
Islam, a Culture in which different tribes (and there are so many groups you need a play book to keep track of them) cannot get along--murder each other in the most barbaric ways, this Culture is demanding they be tolerated in freedom-loving countries? That their intolerant ways be accommodated in freedom-loving countries? That their behaviours and rituals and symbols be included on our freedom-loving countries? That we accommodate women covered from head-to-toe including their faces in our freedom-loving OPEN countries? And we do this in the name of the “value” of diversity in a democracy?
It is not that those of us who are against free-flowing Muslim immigration are against diversity--it is that we are against self-destruction. We are against allowing those who refuse to say that they will honour our values, they will change their ways for ours, as we accept SOME of their ways--ways that do not attack our very freedoms--especially freedom of speech.
The Trudeau Government is coercing Canadians to accept people who do not tolerate their own brothers and sisters, by calling us racist (Islam is NOT a race) or xenophobic (when we have opened our doors to millions of people from around the world), or calling us Islamophobes (which means we cannot criticize Islam despite the fact that we are encouraged to criticize democracy). This is asking us to commit suicide-by-democracy; asking us to abuse our Constitution, including an attempt to stifle free speech. There are those who want to embarrass us into accepting those whose ideology demands the spread of Islam, Sharia Law around the world.
Democracy is fragile. Immigrants must be welcomed into Western countries for our Constitutions sit on the moral value that we care for the other and for that reason we put out the welcome mat. But we must not welcome people into our countries, in the name of “diversity” (a policy that does not seem to include White Anglo Saxon Protestants and French Catholics--the Two Solitudes),who will not accept that value, the Golden Rule, and the moral value that all people, including the Jewish people, are created with equal intrinsic value.
And we must not allow our government to bully us into welcoming people whose moral obligation is the destruction of Western countries. Let us never forget that people who scream “Death to Israel” and "Death to the West” mean every word.
Diane Weber Bederman is a blogger for ‘Times of Israel’, a contributor to Convivium, a national magazine about faith in our community, and also writes about family issues and mental illness. She is a multi-faith endorsed hospital trained chaplain.
